Muga Muga Reserva Tempranillo Garnacha Mazuelo Graciano 2005

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D.O.C., Rioja, Spain
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Natalie's Score: 90/100 Community Score: 4.6/5 Community Reviews: 2 Add My Review Product #: 177345 Wine Type: Red Wine Add to my...CellarFavouritesShopping ListWish ListWine Lists	Price: $24.95 Alcohol: 14% Drink: Now Sweetness: Dry Bottle size: 750 ml Winery: Muga
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Tasting note:

Vintages Wine Panel: Rioja is the most famous of all Spanish regions. Its wines, made principally with the indigenous Tempranillo grape, are extensively aged in oak barrels (often American) which impart a characteristically smooth spicy-oak quality to the wines. Muga’s Reserva is a seductive wine with supple and dense fruit flavors as well as notes of cedar, spice, vanilla and coconut. My note: A rich, luxurious red with layers of black fruit flavor. Full-bodied with notes of mocha, black plums, smoke, vanilla, dark spices and tobacco. A long, satisfying finish. This one will get you out of the Cabernet rut. This wine is part of the Vintages Essentials Collection. Food matches: meat paella, hearty and spicy beef, game stews.

Reviewed April 21, 2009 by Natalie MacLean

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Vera Czerny rated this wine as 93/100 with the following review: As always, this wine is very elegant - dark purple to ruby color and lovely notes of dark fruit and oak on the nose. On the palate it is a sexy, medium weight dark berries wine with smokiness of wood, tobacco, spices and enough soft tannins and acidity to keep for quite a few years. Complex and beautifully balanced. Muga Reserva is definitely drinkable right now, but it will improve with a fews years of cellaring. Consistently world - class wine from Rioja for insane low price. Wines from Muga family never disappointed me. Ever. Dry, Medium body, Aged in oak

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Serve this wine between 60-65 degrees Farenheit or 15-18 degrees Celsius.

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